mthoopsfan
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"Tennessee all-American Dalton Knecht took the long road to these lofty heights"
"That son, Dalton Knecht, that transfer from less-televised Northern Colorado to more-televised Tennessee, would sit in an interview room at the Elite Eight as one of two first-team all-Americans in Sunday’s Purdue-Tennessee Midwest Region final clash (the other being Purdue tower Zach Edey). He would field questions as one of the mere four Naismith player of the year finalists...."
"Knecht’s scoring average, which stands at 21.2 and 14th in the country ...."
"Knecht spoke some old truths applicable to pre-portal days when he said Saturday: “I think it just shows that you don’t have to be the number one kid in your class or the top 10 kid in your class, that you can go to a juco, or you can go to a mid-major, [then] go to one of the best schools in the nation and be one of the best players on that team. So I think no matter what, you’ve just got to stay believing in yourself, and have that belief, and also, just, hard work pays off.”
"gathering particular inspiration from Tennessee assistant Rod Clark. Clark, a 31-year-old with a ton of coaching talent who played at Neosho Community College in Kansas, Redlands Community College in Oklahoma and NAIA Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky, knew also about Northeastern Junior College in Colorado, which is where Knecht started out. Clark had two relatives who played there, Knecht said, and the two young men spoke fluently the juco dialect."
"That son, Dalton Knecht, that transfer from less-televised Northern Colorado to more-televised Tennessee, would sit in an interview room at the Elite Eight as one of two first-team all-Americans in Sunday’s Purdue-Tennessee Midwest Region final clash (the other being Purdue tower Zach Edey). He would field questions as one of the mere four Naismith player of the year finalists...."
"Knecht’s scoring average, which stands at 21.2 and 14th in the country ...."
"Knecht spoke some old truths applicable to pre-portal days when he said Saturday: “I think it just shows that you don’t have to be the number one kid in your class or the top 10 kid in your class, that you can go to a juco, or you can go to a mid-major, [then] go to one of the best schools in the nation and be one of the best players on that team. So I think no matter what, you’ve just got to stay believing in yourself, and have that belief, and also, just, hard work pays off.”
"gathering particular inspiration from Tennessee assistant Rod Clark. Clark, a 31-year-old with a ton of coaching talent who played at Neosho Community College in Kansas, Redlands Community College in Oklahoma and NAIA Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky, knew also about Northeastern Junior College in Colorado, which is where Knecht started out. Clark had two relatives who played there, Knecht said, and the two young men spoke fluently the juco dialect."
